News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events . . .
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide
Gender Based Violence Conference, online from Northumbria University
From Colony to Republic: The social history of law in 19th-century Latin America, Oxford and online
Evidentiary Regimes of UN Treaty Bodies: Perspectives from research and practice, Ghent, Belgium – call for papers
Laughing Matters? Humor and Free Speech in the Digital Age, online from Columbia University, New York
Public Law Project: Discrimination law project, online and hybrid events
Can the Law Deliver inclusion?, University of Sussex, Brighton
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Poverty in Scotland 2022, virtual event
Findings from the UK’s largest study on the social impact of COVID-19, webinar
ConnectDNA: Research stakeholder workshops, Manchester, London, Birmingham
The Precarity of Public Space, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Sutdies and online
Bazaar Governance: Legal Pluralism and Economic Order in Afghanistan’s Money Exchange Market, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Sutdies and online
Bureaucratic Capacities and Responsible Uses of AI, SCOTLIN event, University of Edinburgh
(En)lightening talk with Jade Kouletakis, Abertay University, online hosted by SCOTLIN
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Places in Transition: SLSA Property, People, Power, and Place stream, online meeting
SLSA 2023 University of Ulster: call for papers coming soon
2022
October
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Poverty in Scotland 2022
Date: 3 October 2022
Venue: virtual event
See website for details.
Findings from the UK’s Largest Study on the Social Impact of COVID-19
Date: 4 October 2022
Venue: online from UCL
This study was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, Wellcome Trust and UKRI. See website for details.
Book Symposium on Gerry Simpson’s The Sentimental Life of Law
Date: 12 October 2022
Venue: QMUL, London
See website for details.
Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts 2022: Democracy and the Law
Date: 13 October 2022
Venue: Exchange House, Primrose Street, London
Organised by the Public Law Project. See website for details.
Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Alternative Payments: Regulating the “Wild West"
Dates: 13–14 October 2022
Venue: in person at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
See announcement for details.
Laughing Matters? Humor and Free Speech in the Digital Age
Date: 14 October 2022
Venue: online from Columbia University, New York
See website for details of this Global Freedom of Expression event.
The Precarity of Public Space
Date: 17 October 2022
Venue: Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Sutdies and online
Speaker: Professor Antonia Layard
See announcement for joining details and information about other events in this series.
International Conference on Law and Art in the 19th Century: Power in images
Dates: 19–21 October 2022
Venue: Verona, Italy
See website for details.
Human Rights against Democratic Backsliding in Poland
Date: 21 October 2022
Venue: UCL, London
Organised by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. See website for details.
Bureaucratic Capacities and Responsible Uses of AI
Date: 21 October 2022
Venue: SCOTLIN event, University of Edinburgh
See website and invitation for details of this free event.
From Colony to Republic: The social history of law in 19th-century Latin America
Dates: 21–22 October 2022
Venue: University of Oxford and online
See website for this free British Academy event.
Arbitration in Britain and its Empire: Developments and Divergences
Date: 22 October 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organisers: Francis Boorman (IALS), Christian Burset (Notre Dame) and Catharine MacMillan (King’s College London).
See website for details.
ESRC Festival of Social Science
Dates: 22 October–13 November 2022
Venue: various nationwide
See website for details.
Bazaar Governance: Legal Pluralism and Economic Order in Afghanistan’s Money Exchange Market
Date: 24 October 2022
Venue: Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Sutdies and online
Speaker: Dr Nafay Choudhary
See announcement for joining details and information about other events in this series.
'A Ghostly Presence': Dead letters and the Australian Constitution
Date: 26 October 2022
Venue: online from LIRC, University of Wollongong
See announcement for full details.
Engaging with Government 2023
Date: 27 October 2022
Venue: Institute for Government, London
See website for details.
(En)lightening talk with Jade Kouletakis, Abertay University
Date: 27 October 2022
Venue: online hosted by SCOTLIN
See website and invitation for details of this free event.
November
ConnectDNA: Research stakeholder workshops
Dates: 1 & 29 November 2022 and 25 January 2023
Venues: Manchester, London, Birmingham
The ConnecteDNA research project explores the impact of direct-to-consumer genetic testing for people involved in, or impacted by, donor conception. People with experience of donor conception are invited to join these workshops. See announcement for details.
SAFESOC Death in Prisons Conference, Oxford
Dates: 2–3 November 2022
Venue: Oxford
See SAFESOC website for details in due course.
Spaces of Conflict, Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes
Date: 3–4 November 2022
Venue: jointly hosted by Sapienza and McGill Universities at McGill University, Montréal, Canada – call for papers
Please see announcement for details.
Women, Listening and Law – what does it take to be heard?: call for abstracts
Dates: 3–4 November 2022
Venue: Legal Intersections Research Centre, School of Law, University of Wollongong
Selected papers from the Symposium will be published as a Special Issue of Social and Legal Studies. See announcement for details. Call closes: 2 September 2022.
JUSTICE Annual Human Rights Conference
Date: 4 November 2022
Venue: Allen and Overy LLP, London
Further information will be available on the JUSTICE website in due course.
The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship, Part 2: 1985–1995: call for papers
Date: 4 November 2022
Venue: London and online
See announcement for details. Call closes: 3 October 2022.
Can the Law Deliver inclusion?
Date: 8 November 2022
Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton
Speaker: Professor David Ruebain
See website for details of this free event.
David Bowie and Ideas
Dates: 9 November 2022, 8 March 2023 and tbc
Venue: University of Warwick
Speaker: Professor Alex Sharpe, Warwick Law School
See website for details of these free events.
Places in Transition: SLSA Property, People, Power, and Place stream
Date: 9 November 2022
Venue: online meeting
See annnouncement for details.
Public Law Project: Discrimination law project
Dates: 8–10 and 15 November 2022
Venue: online and hybrid events
See website for details.
Gender Based Violence Conference
Date: 15 November 2022
Venue: online from Northumbria University's Family Justice Research Interest Group
See website for details of this event which is also supported by the Society of Legal Scholars.
The Neglected Decade: Legal Issues of the 1950s
Date: 23 November 2022
Venue: online hosted by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Organised by Professors Rosemary Auchmuty and Fiona Cownie. See announcement for full details.
December
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 9–10 December 2022
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
See website for details.
2023
January
Joint International Research Project in the Field of Gender Equality: Haifa, Israel, and Lille, France – call for papers
Dates: 9 January 2023 and 3–6 July 2023
Venue: Unviersity of Haifa, Israel, and Lille University, France
See announcement for details. Closing dates: 15 October 2022 (Haifa) and 15 February 2023 (Lille).
February
AHRC Engaging with Government 2023: two-day course
Dates: 21–23 February 2023
Venue: Institute for Government, London
See website for details of this free event.
April
SLSA Annual Conference 2023
Dates: 6–9 April 2023
Venue: University of Ulster, Derry-Londonderry
Further coming soon.
May
International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Dates: 4–6 May 2023
Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
See announcement for details. Call closes: 29 August 2022.
Evidentiary Regimes of UN Treaty Bodies: Perspectives from research and practice – call for papers
Dates: 15–16 May 2023
Venue: Ghent, Belgium
See website for details. This event is organised by the DISSECT HORIZON 2020 research project. Call closes: 15 November 2022.
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.
June
LSA Annual Meeting 2023: submissions now open
Dates: 1–4 June 2023
Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
See website for details. Closing date: 8 November 2022.
Equality, Law and Social Justice Residence: call for participants
Dates: 19 June–7 July 2023
Venue: King's College London
Call for scholars to participate in a sustained three-week interdisciplinary and international conversation on equality, law and social justice to be held in London.This is the first in an annual series of research-intensive thematic residences. See website for details. Closing date for applications: 30 September 2022.
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights, Melbourne – call for papers
Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
See website for details. Closing date: 30 September 2022
July
Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion – call for papers
Dates: 10–14 July 2023
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details. Call closes: 1 December 2022.